Notes on the crypt and bones of Hythe Church / by H.D. Dale and F.G. Parsons.

  • Dale, Herbert D.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Notes on the crypt and bones of Hythe Church / by H.D. Dale and F.G. Parsons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    same force from a liatcliet was given to eacli of these skulls and the resulting injuries compared. In the fairly fresh skull the cuts were sharp and the edges even, l)ut in the dry skull the edges were broken and depressed.* From this result T am strongly of opinion that the wounds found in the greater number of Hythe skulls were inflicted not before death, but very many years after, and are in no way indica- tions of their oAvners liaAong died in battle, but rather point to the result of spades and picks in digging them up. Two or three skulls shoAV signs of iiAjury AAdiich had been repaired and quite recovered from, but this cannot be looked upon as eAudence that their OAvners died in battle. There is one skull AAdiich has received more notice than all the others, and Dr. Knox re- garded it as another instance of a healino’ Avonnd. Tavo or three perforations appear surrounded by a great heaping-np of bony matter. This skull has been submitted to a pathologist of undoubted reputation, A\dio re- cognised in it an instance of a S]ieciflc disease * This result was confirmed hy striking a hnried skull with a spade and noticing that the injuries closely resembled those foimd in most of the skulls injured in the Hythe Collection.